Ez is India (This is also India)
Budapestt: Sylvester, 1937. First editon. In original cloth with the wrapper. 200 p. Signed first editon of this book by the Hungarian missionary who written this book after he had been in India in 1937. More
Budapestt: Sylvester, 1937. First editon. In original cloth with the wrapper. 200 p. Signed first editon of this book by the Hungarian missionary who written this book after he had been in India in 1937. More
En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real (a costa de Gabriel León, Mercader de libros), Año de 1640. Scarce second edition (first in 1633). In contemporary vellum. Spine lettered in ink. (16), (1)–481, (15) p. Page 39 and 132 misnumbered. A scarce collection of Franciscan sermons, among them “Sermon de los..... More
Beirut: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kāthūlīkīyah lil-Ābāʼ al-Yasūʻīyīn [Catholic Press of the Jesuit Fathers], 1888–1890. First edition of this version of the text. In publisher’s wrappers (printed title on front and spine on vol. 3 and 5). An early edition of the Arabian Nights by the Jesuit printing house in Beirut... More
Budapest: 1907. First edition. In original paper. 141 p with 72 illustration. The first Hungarian book on Judo. At the end of April 1906, the Japanese master Sasaki Kichisaburo came to Hungary to introduce the Hungarians to ju-jitsu and its modernized form, judo. His trip was initiated and paid..... More
Berolini (Berlin): Ex Officina Academica, 1844. First edition. In contemporary half cloth. Marbled panels, and gilt spine. IV, 88 p. Scarce Chinese vocabulary, printed in only 200 copies. Wilhelm Schott (1802–1889) was a German orientalist, sinologist. More
[S.l.]: [s.n.], [n.d., but after August 27 1516]. First edition. Title page with large woodcut illustration showing the King on his throne surrounded by the delegates. In Bastarda type, with two floral woodcut initials. In later hard paper. Gilt title vignette on spine, damaged. [20] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, early..... More
Warszawa: Towarzystwo Hodowli Konia Arabskiego, 1938. First edition. In publisher’s blue cloth. Gilt title on front panel. 32 leaves (many folding; 2 loose as published). First edition of the first pedigree charts of the pure-bred Polish Arabians. In this book, Edward Skorkowski, the first Secretary of the..... More
In Bologna: presso Vittorio Benacci, 1601. Illustrated with two double-page engraved plates. Enriched with two recurring large woodcuts and woodcut and typographical head and tailpieces. First edition. In contemporary vellum. Coll: [𝜋]4; A–H4 ; [ 8], 64 p., and [2] engraved plates. One of the earliest reports of the decisive..... More
Budapest: 1885, Franklin-Társulat Könyvnyomdája. First separate edition. Offprint with separate pagination (pp. [1]–19). In publisher’s printed wrappers. (1)–19, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first separate edition of Stein’s first publication, his paper on Persian religious literature. Written while he studied in Britain on a Hungarian scholarship at the Trinity College in..... More
Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar tudományos Akadémia, 1913. First edition. Inscribed by Stein. With the photographic portrait of Duka on frontispiece. In publisher’s printed wrappers. [1 (photographic frontispiece], 33, (1) p. Inscribed first edition of Stein’s commemorate speech for Theodor Duka. Theodor or Tivadar Duka (1925–1908) was a Hungarian-born English..... More
Budapest: Franklin-Társulat nyomdája, 1897. First separate edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein. Offprint of Budapesti Szemle, Vol. XCI. In publisher’s wrappers. 27, (1) p. Stein’s inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in August 1897, inscribed to his cousin, in the Upper Bavarian spa town Bad Reichenhall... More
Dresden: [S.n.], 1926. First separate edition. Presentation copy. Offprint edition. Unbound as published. 61–71, (1) p. Inscribed copy of Stein’s paper on Alexander the Great’s campaign on the Indian North-West frontier. The rewritten English version was published a year later in the “The Geographical Journal”. Sir Marc Aurél Stein..... More
[Budapest]: [S.n.], [1909]. First Hungarian separate edition. Short note in pencil probably by Stein’s hand on front cover “A szerző megbízásából” (Author’s commission). In publisher’s printed wrappers. 30 p. First Hungarian separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908. Stein..... More
[Budapest]: [S.n.], [1909]. First English separate edition. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 28 p. First English separate edition of Stein’s report on his second major expedition to Central Asia between 1906 and 1908. The text is the translation of the paper Stein read at the Hungarian Geographical..... More
[S.n.]: [N.p.], n.d. but 1901?]. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher’s yellow wrappers. 295–300, (2) p. Stein’s early paper on the archeological excavations and findings in Khotan during his first major expedition to Central-Asia in 1900–1901. Originally published in Journal of..... More
Budapest: Révai Kiadás, 1935. First Hungarian edition. In original cloth with the dust jacket. 813 p. First Hungarian edition. With the rare jacket. More
Budapest: Athenaeum, 1903. In original cloth. 213+[2] p.+18 pl. Selection of Chinese tales transleted to Hungarian. More
Venetia: 1570. In bit later paper. 24 p. Very rare Venetian edition of the famous report on the siege of of Zighet (Szigetvár) in Hungary, and the death of Soliman the magnificent. Some attribute the paternity to Farnjo Crnka (Ferenc Czerno). The siege of the castle was started by..... More
Pozsonban [Pozsony]: Landerer Mihály’ költségével, és betűivel, [1778]. First Hungarian edition. In contemporary cardboard covered in blue paper. 93, (3) p. First Hungarian edition of Voltaire’s tragedy, ”Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophete”. Voltaire five-act tragedy was written in 1736, premiered in 1741 and the first pirate editions appeared..... More
Helsinki (Helsingfors): 1850. First editon. In contemporary paper. 46 p. Georg Augustus Wallin (1811–1852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He travelled the Arab world for six years, and disguised himself as Muslim to gain acceptance in the two holy Islamic cities, Mecca and Medina, which at the time were..... More
Helsingforsiae [Helsinki]: Ex Officina Typographica Frenckelliana, MDCCCXXXIX [1839]. First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed. 47, (1) p. First edition of Wallin’s dissertation on the differences between classical and modern Arabic. Georg Augustus Wallin (1811–1852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He..... More
Wien: 1926? Vintage photo of Tagore. On the back a stamp with Willinger's. name. 11x 15 cm. More
Jerusalem: Turgeman (or Turgemon), 672 [1919 or 1920]. First Jerusalem edition (second overall; first in Odessa, 1912). In publisher’s printed wrappers. Illustrated. [6] 3–161 [3] p. The first translation of the Arabian Nights into Hebrew, consists of sixteen selected stories. This scarce collection of sixteen selected stories is the first..... More